Rules...1. The person who posted before you will have said a page number and a sentence number. (For example, page 42, sentence three.)2. Grab the closest book to you, no matter what it is, and it has to be the closest, not one that you go searching for to be cool.3. Write down the sentence that you found earlier. (In this case the third sentence on page 42.)4. Pick a page number and sentence number for the next person.

I will go first. TtW told me to find page 73, 9th sentence.

Seeing the father of the boy she had just killed rushing toward her, Zannah acted on instinct and fired the weapon again.

Alright, whoever posts next has to post the 11th sentence on page 4.

And just for the heck of it, if you can guess what book the sentence comes from then do it. If you are right, I will give you meaningless bonus points!

Desperate for something to do, for distraction, he slipped out of his sleeping bag, picked up his wand, and crept out of the room.

Page 240, sentence 5

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

Tigger_the_Wing wrote:"May I remind you that the Archchancellor of this university is, by college statute, the first among equals?"

Discworld but I'm not sure about the book, Last Continent?

Even so, following what we said in Chapter 5, it should not surprise you: the oxygen is clearly the nucleophile and the silicon the electrophile, and a new bond forms from O to Si as indicated by the arrow.

Page 28, sentence 18

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything - Friedrich Nietzsche

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

Tigger_the_Wing wrote:DB - you were close, it's from Unseen Academicals, as is the quote below.

Bum. I considered UA but the first among equals sounded more of an 'early wizards' comment. Also, I don't like the direction Pratchett took with the Dean leaving, him and Ridcully were a great double act -(spoiler here)

Electronic excitation of a molecule may weaken or strengthen some bonds because bonding and antibonding characteristics differ between the HOMO and the LUMO.

Sort of cheating but the first two books I picked up both had fewer than 350 pages.

Page 54, sentence 1.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything - Friedrich Nietzsche

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

Such an overall sharpness or flatness would not be noticed by someone without absolute pitch, but it can be distressing and even disabling to those who do have it.

page 53, sentence 11

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré